FOOD QUOTATIONS

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FOOD QUOTATIONS

"Before eating, always take time to thank the food" -Arapaho Proverb
"Coarse rice for food, water to drink, and the bended arm for a pillow - happiness may be enjoyed even in these."-Confucius
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper." -Adelle Davis
"One cannot think well, love well sleep well, if one has not dined well." "-Virginia Woolf
"He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skills of the physician."- Chinese proverb
"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." "-Lao-tzu
"The ear tests words as the palate tastes food." - Job 34:3
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness." "-Elsa Schiapirelli
"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."-Hippocrates
"Talk doesn't cook rice." -Chinese Proverb
"An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh." -Will Rogers
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." -Aesop
"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity." -Voltaire
"Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care." -Buddha
"A cheerful heart is good medicine." -Proverbs 17:22
"The two biggest sellers in bookstores are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it." -Andy Rooney
"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people ." -Chinese Proverb
"To read without reflecting, is like eating without digesting." -Francis Bacon
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet." -Julia Child
"Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." -Carl Sandburg